Triple-Decker Weekly, 119
...group to which the original transgressor and the displaced target belong is highly entitative. Two experimental online studies show that displaced revenge leads to less regret or more satisfaction when...
Sunday Reading
...average of more than 7000. With rapidly developing innovation in online course delivery models, the internet’s public institutions have a unique opportunity to meet critical demands by providing students with...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 57
...of political transparency. The changes mean Congressional and White House staff members will not have to post details of their shareholdings online. They will also make online filing optional for...
Meritocracy and measurement myths
...to “express ourselves” but we end up being willing to express whatever is necessary to get measurable increases in online impact. The possibility and plausiblity of a real self becomes...
Model Behavior
...just how this goes: You dress for the office, you mold your online and offline persona to reflect well on the company, and even out of office hours, your “performance”...
“Art”
...Abrams in “Flatland;” it was arguably ever thus, but in a post-Internet economy in which art is primarily viewed onscreen and online, new strategies are both possible and necessary. The...
Against TED
...events, focusing mostly but not exclusively on technology. TED has posted more than 1,100 videos of the talks online. By my count, 89 of them have achieved more than one...
Serf Boards
...money online using a service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” as it’s colloquially known. MTurk was started in 2005 by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and director of Amazon Web...
A moment of dreaming about higher education
...actually credit a course completion certificate from an online course, but we’re not in that world. In the world we actually live in, the difference between “real” and “online” courses...
Sunday Reading
...MOOC any more than I oppose online classes, or three-hundred-person-lectures, or Wikipedia“ “the way that the Harlem Shake meme seems perfectly designed for the workplace“ “Everybody in the industry wants...
Incalculable Loss
...primary value of this online activity, from the point of view of security operations, is that it provides the norm for the data set probed by algorithms, testing and manipulating...
Picture Pluperfect
...It is easy to mistake what we do online as centrally about exposure and transparent exhibitionism. The explosive popularity of Pinterest — a social network based around collecting and...
Choose Your Own Adventure
...sexuality “demands racism as a particular form of exogamy.” Theirs was a hidden subculture, but today online dating profiles advertise racial preferences like favorite ice cream flavors. Light-hearted references to...
Mediums of Exchange
...to develop the capacity, the capital-ability, of the spiritualized self. When the work of self-mining is translated into a viable online identity, we see how easily the lines between spiritual...
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
Triple-Decker Weekly, 98
Robert Heinecken, Lessons in Posing Subjects/Matching Facial Expressions, 1981 (Robert Heinecken retrospective at MoMA, through September 7, 2014) Fox News host Bill Hemmer explains missing plane: ‘It...